Kia tutuki ai ngā whainga me ngā tumanako kia mau tonu i ngā mahi
Through working together our goals and objectives will be achieved
Kia tutuki ai ngā whainga me ngā tumanako kia mau tonu i ngā mahi
Through working together our goals and objectives will be achieved
The first in a new series where we discussed recent publications with authors and researchers, this session questioned the widespread application of western frameworks to indigenous communities and prompted reflection on parallels in Aotearoa.
Maslow spent time with the Siksika Nation in Canada during the 1930s and it's been claimed that his thinking was influenced by his experiences there. Research by Assistant Professor Gabrielle Lindstrom and Professor Peter Choate disrupts the widely accepted notion that a western framework such as the hierarchy of needs can adequately explain the experience of indigenous people or that it aligns with an indigenous worldview.
Dr. Gabrielle E. Lindstrom, Tsa'piinaki is a member of the Kainai Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy. An Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies with Mount Royal University, her teaching background includes instructing on topics around First Nation, Métis, Inuit history and current issues, Indigenous Studies (Canadian and International perspectives), Indigenous cross-cultural approaches, and Indigenous research methods and ethics. Her dissertation research focused on the interplay between trauma and resilience in the postsecondary experiences of indigenous adult learners. Other research interests include meaningful assessment in higher education, indigenous homelessness, intercultural parallels in teaching and learning research, indigenous lived experience of resilience, indigenous community-based research, parenting assessment tools reform in child welfare, anti-colonial theory, and anti-racist pedagogy.
Peter Choate is Professor of Social Work and Programme Coordinator at Mount Royal University and Member and Supervisor, Clinical Registry, at the Alberta College of Social Workers. Peter’s teaching focuses on assessment issues in social work, including families, as well as child and adolescent mental health. He has served for 5 years as the Field Director for the First- and Second-Year Practicum Program and is now the Program Coordinator.
Peter’s areas of research include:
• Assessment of parents within child protection systems including systemic bias issues
• Practice errors in child protection linked to serious injury and death
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Stigma and implications for front line practice
• Implementation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action within the practice of social work
Peter is an expert witness in social work with sub-specialties in the areas of social work case management, parenting capacity (including risk, domestic violence, and addictions), Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and cross-cultural assessment. He has been qualified on over 150 occasions in the Provincial Court of Alberta (Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and Lethbridge) and the Court of Queen’s Bench (Calgary and Medicine Hat) as well as the Court of Queen’s Bench, Regina.
He has published extensively in the field of assessment and child protection. He has spoken nationally and internationally in this area to social workers, lawyers, the judiciary and other mental hearth practitioners. He has also been a member of expert panels reviewing child protection errors with the Child and Youth Advocate in Alberta.
Webinar date: Thursday 27 October